Bug#534177: Please provide single-precision library as well

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Mon Jun 22 15:53:56 UTC 2009


Hi,

Am Montag, den 22.06.2009, 17:15 +0200 schrieb Gonéri Le Bouder:
> > on some hardware like the Openmoko FreeRunner, using libode built with
> > double precision is not possible, as it it just too slow. This can be
> > worked around with building ode with single precision. Having such a
> > package in Debian would enable the use of mokomaze.
> >
> > Reference to the relevant discussion:
> > http://n2.nabble.com/-Mokomaze-0.5.0--is-released-tp2754592p2787757.html
> >
> > Could you please also build a libode-single-precision from the ode
> > source?
> Hi,
> 
> Make sence, but how will you switch between the two different lib
> since they don't share the same ABI? Maybe we can disable double
> precision on the slow archs (armel, mips, m68k). I don't know if it's
> an acceptable solution?

hmm, right, didn’t think of the ABI incompatibility.

Making this dependent on the architecture sounds like a good compromise
to me, at least until someone else complains.

Greetings,
Joachim

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